Paul Nash
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Paul Nash (1889 - 1946)
Paul Nash was born in 1889 in London, and grew up in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1910 to 1911 under the renowned Professor of Drawing Henry Tonks, alongside Ben Nicholson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Christopher R. W. Nevinson. He served in the Artists' Rifles during World War I until he was invalided home following a fall, and returned to the front as an Official War Artist. He was a member of the London Group from 1914, co-founded Unit One with Ben Nicholson in 1933 whose members included Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and he was represented in the Venice Biennale in 1926, 1932 and 1938. From 1936 he was a leading proponent of British Surrealism and organised the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. During World War II he was again an Official War Artist. He died in 1946 in Boscombe, Hampshire, succumbing to the severe asthma that afflicted him for most of his adult life.
Nash's achievements and influence in British, and international, inter-war art are near unsurpassable. Working in oils, pastels and watercolours, and primarily through the genre of landscape, Nash united various artistic legacies and traditions. His war works are without parallel in their evocation of the suffering of mankind represented by the destruction of the landscape, whilst the products of his Surrealist period evoke a quiet unease, a refined uncanny mood that marries the revolution of European Surrealism with the romantic British landscape tradition and the mythological and mystical heritage of William Blake to depict a pantheistic, all-encompassing natural world.
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The Quiet Garden, 1926
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Interior, 1930
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Harbour and Room, 1931
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The Raider on the Moors, 1940
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Ironmaster's Folly, 1941
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Ruin in the Forest of Dean, 1946
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The Peacock Path, 1912
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Autumn Landscape, 1923
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Wood and Hill, 1932
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Sea Wall, 1935
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Sunrise over Valley, 1943
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A Private World, 1978
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Rouen, 1928
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Convolvulus, 1930
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Shellburst, Zillebeke, 1917
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The Shore, 1922
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Paul Nash
Another Life, Another World David Boyd Haycock, 2019Softback, 100 pagesRead more
Publisher: Piano Nobile Publications
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Outline
An Autobiography Paul Nash , 2016Hardback, 279 pagesRead more
Publisher: Lund Humphries
ISBN: 978-1-84822-188-8
Dimensions: 24 x 15 x 3 cm -
Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910-1946
Another Life Another World David Boyd Haycock, 2014Hardback, 90 pagesRead more
Publisher: Piano Nobile Publications
ISBN: 978-1-901192-37-7
Dimensions: 28.8 x 24.8 x 1.4cm
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Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 2 Jul 2024 Art FairPiano Nobile returned to The Treasure House Fair in June of 2024. We highlighted works from across the twentieth century, with early paintings by Augustus John and Walter Sickert, Duncan...Read more -
Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 22 - 26 Jun 2023 Art FairThe Treasure House Fair is a celebration of outstanding and rare art and antiques. Held at The Royal Hospital Chelsea the fair continues the tradition of its predecessors, Masterpiece and...Read more -
Drawn to Paper
Giacometti to Hockney 16 Mar - 12 May 2023 Piano NobileSince the Renaissance, blank sheets of paper have been an important creative motor in Western art. They provide a neutral space, ideally suited for both effortless jeux d’esprit and hard-won...Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 30 Jun - 6 Jul 2022 Art FairPiano Nobile exhibited at Masterpiece Art Fair in 2022, then London's leading art and antiques fair. Highlights from the gallery's stand included significant works by Walter Sickert, Henry Moore, Paul...Read more -
Surrealism in Britain
129 Portland Road 17 Feb - 17 Mar 2020 Piano NobileSurrealism in Britain was a gallery display of work by John Armstrong, Cecil Beaton, Paul Nash, and other early twentieth-century artists who explored the subconscious. The display complimented Dulwich Picture...Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 3 Jul 2019Piano Nobile returned to Masterpiece, London's leading art and antiques fair in 2019 . Highlights from the gallery's stand included work by Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews. There...Read more -
Frieze New York
Paul Nash 1 - 5 May 2019 Art FairPiano Nobile presented a focused display of work by the leading British modernist, Paul Nash, at Frieze New York in 2019. Alongside Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Nash...Read more -
British Art Fair
Saatchi Gallery 20 - 23 Sep 2018 Art FairPiano Nobile presented a selection of Post-War and Modern British art, including works by Craigie Aitchison, Kenneth Armitage, David Bomberg, Peter Coker, William Crozier, Leslie Marr, Leon Kossoff, Paul Nash,...Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 28 Jun - 4 Jul 2018 Art FairPiano Nobile presented a selection of Modern and Contemporary British and International artists including works by Anthony Caro, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, William Crozier, Craigie Aitchison...Read more -
Modern British Masters (III)
Selected Highlights 29 May - 20 Jun 2018 Piano NobileContinuing a series of exhibitions on the theme, Piano Nobile presented a display of Modern British Masters. Stretching from the birth of modern art at the beginning of the twentieth...Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 5 Jul 2017 Art FairThe gallery presented a selection of Modern and Contemporary British and International artists including works by William Scott, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Augustus John, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Eduardo...Read more -
Paul Nash
A Gallery Selection 18 Oct - 18 Nov 2016 Piano NobileThe gallery presents a curated selection of drawings, watercolours and oil paintings by Paul Nash to mark the opening of Paul Nash at Tate Britain. Paintings and prints by Modern British artist Paul Nash will be for sale.Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 28 Jun - 6 Jul 2016 Art FairPiano Nobile returns to Masterpiece for 2016 with Modern British, International and Contemporary art for sale.Read more -
Masterpiece
Royal Hospital Chelsea 24 Jun - 1 Jul 2015 Art FairPiano Nobile is exhibiting at Masterpiece 2015.Read more -
British Self-Portraits: Highlights from the Ruth Borchard Collection
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 18 Oct 2014 - 31 May 2015Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, in conjunction with Piano Nobile, presented an exhibition of highlights from the Ruth Borchard Collection of self-portraits by British artists brought together by Ruth Borchard throughout...Read more -
Paul Nash: Watercolours, 1910-1946
Another Life, Another World 9 Oct - 22 Nov 2014 Piano NobileOpen through October 2014, and marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, the exhibition celebrated the work of Paul Nash (1889- 1946), one of the most significant...Read more
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InSight No. 138
Paul Nash | River and Trees November 24, 2023Unlike so many artists who have gazed across the Seine and thought it a good idea to paint the bridges, the Louvre or Notre Dame,...Read more -
InSight No. 121
Paul Nash | Harbour and Room, 1931 March 24, 2023Darkest night enters an enclosed room. Dreams and the hinterland between waking and sleeping underlie Paul Nash’s surrealist masterpiece, which is now showing in Piano...Read more -
InSight No. 112
Paul Nash | Ruin in the Forest of Dean October 26, 2022Paul Nash was a poet painter whose landscape paintings evince a hidden world, overflowing with Blakean imagery and fragmentary historical remains. InSight No. 112 Ruin...Read more -
InSight. No. 105
Paul Nash | Sunrise over Valley, 1943 June 16, 2022Paul Nash's view of the world was transformed by an imaginative grasp of landscape history, an interest in druidic ritual, and an awareness of Christian...Read more -
InSight No. LXXII
Paul Nash | Spring Landscape, circa 1930s June 10, 2021The landscape art of Paul Nash (1889-1946) encompasses both modernist impulses and a traditional rural life. Paul Nash Spring Landscape, 1930 c. Though today he...Read more -
InSight No. 19
Paul Nash | A Private World June 12, 2020Paul Nash’s reputation as one of Britain’s great landscape artists is well-known. Less well known are his photographs, an artistic achievement in their own right,...Read more -
British Surrealism exhibition opens at Dulwich
London February 26, 2020An important new exhibition of modern British art has opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. British Surrealism: 1783-1952 has been curated by Dr David Boyd...Read more -
Piano Nobile in The New York Times
Farah Nayeri May 2, 2019The New York Times has featured Piano Nobile's stand at Frieze New York 2019 . It is the gallery's first time exhibiting at the fair....Read more -
Paul Nash opens at Tate Britain
London November 10, 2016On 26 October 2016, the Tate Britain opened the long-awaited Paul Nash, billed as the largest exhibition of the artist’s work for a generation. Paul...Read more -
Paul Nash: Outline - An Autobiography
David Boyd Haycock November 1, 2016Published by Lund Humphries LAUNCH EVENING Tuesday 8 November, 6-8pm To be opened by David Boyd Haycock Signed books will be available to purchase RSVP...Read more -
Paul Nash watercolour sells for record price
London November 19, 2014Earlier this week, the world record price for a Paul Nash watercolour was achieved in the London salesrooms. Paul Nash's A Drawing (1913) sold for...Read more -
Paul Nash exhibition reviewed by Apollo Magazine
Maggie Gray November 17, 2014As our autumn exhibition Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910-1946; Another Life Another World enters its final week, Maggie Gray, web editor of Apollo Magazine, has written...Read more -
David Boyd Haycock article published in Apollo Magazine
Paul Nash October 9, 2014David Boyd Haycock, the curator of Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910-1946 and the author of the fully illustrated catalogue accompanying the exhibition, has written an article,...Read more -
Paul Nash in Apollo Magazine
London October 9, 2014Paul Nash exhibition features in London Diary, Apollo Magazine's round-up of the best exhibitions in London.Read more -
Paul Nash exhibition features in The Daily Telegraph
Colin Gleadell September 23, 2014Piano Nobile's Paul Nash exhibition features in The Telegraph.Read more -
Paul Nash features in BBC documentary
Andrew Graham-Dixon September 16, 2014Paul Nash, subject of Piano Nobile's latest exhibition, Paul Nash: Watercolours 1910-1946, is topic of BBC Four documentary on British artists during World War I presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.Read more -
Paul Nash talk hosted by Apollo Magazine
London January 16, 2014Apollo magazine hosts talk at London Art Fair 2014 on Piano Nobile Gallery's River 1932 painting by Paul NashRead more -
A Crisis of Brilliance 1908-1922
Dulwich Picture Gallery October 8, 2013Between 1908 and 1922, C.R.W Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington, David Bomberg and Paul Nash, studied together at the Slade School of Art...Read more